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Thyssenkrupp to cement Tata Steel deal with offer to workers
11 Dec 2017
Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel had in September agreed to merge their European steel operations, creating Europe’s second largest steelmaker
Apple finalising deal for acquisition of Shazam
09 Dec 2017
KKR & Co to buy Hyperion from Sweden’s Sandvik
09 Dec 2017
BASF to merge oil and gas unit with Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s DEA Deutsche Erdoel
08 Dec 2017
Stryker Corp to buy Entellus Medical for $662 mn
08 Dec 2017
Israel Chemicals to sell its fire safety and oil additives units to SK Capital for $1 bn
07 Dec 2017
Nestle to buy Canadian vitamin maker Atrium for $2.3 bn
07 Dec 2017
Swiss food and drink giant Nestle SA yesterday struck a deal to buy Canadian privately-held vitamin maker Atrium Innovations for $2.3 billion in order to expand its consumer healthcare portfolio
Broadcom takes its $103-bn bid hostile by nominating 11 for Qualcomm board
05 Dec 2017
On 13 November, Qualcomm's board unanimously rejected Broadcom's non-binding, unsolicited bid saying that the proposal dramatically undervalues Qualcomm and comes with significant regulatory uncertainty
Airtel acquires strategic stake in Juggernaut
04 Dec 2017
CVS Health to buy Aetna for around $69 bn
04 Dec 2017
The deal would help the drugstore giant fortify itself against looming competition from Amazon.com Inc, and also save around $750 million annually
Nestle, Bain Capital, Cinven in race for Merck KgaA’s consumer health unit
02 Dec 2017
Swiss food giant Nestle and private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven – owners of German drug firm Stada — are in the race to buy Merck KgaA’s consumer health unit
Economics to decide market value of Air India
30 Nov 2017
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